Dennis Gassner

Dennis Gassner

1948-10-22 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 39 Credits

Biography

Dennis Gassner (born October 22, 1948) is an American-Canadian production designer. He is notable for his work on Bugsy, Big Fish, Into the Woods, and Blade Runner 2049, his collaborations with the Coen brothers and Sam Mendes, as well the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, the latter two directed by Mendes. He has been nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and has won once. Gassner was nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award for Excell...

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The Electric State

The Electric State

2025

Production Design

6.5

An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

The Gray Man

The Gray Man

2022

Production Design

6.9

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...

Allied Forces: Making 1917

Allied Forces: Making 1917

2020

as Self

6.5
Acting

Learn how the one shot, 360-degree format was executed and the pivotal role Academy Award® winner Roger Deakins served in bringing Sam Mendes’ vision ...

1917

1917

2019

Production Design

8.0

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hu...

Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld

Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld

2018

as Himself

8.0
Acting

The long and hard road that the makers of Waterworld had to face when making the, then, highest budgeted film.

Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

2017

Production Design

7.6

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge wh...

Spectre

Spectre

2015

Production Design

6.6

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

2014

Production Design

5.8

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Skyfall

Skyfall

2012

Production Design

7.2

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

Bond on Location

Bond on Location

2012

as Self - Production Designer

6.0
Acting

Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors.

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace

2008

Production Design

6.3

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond...

The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass

2007

Production Design

6.1

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

2006

as Self

Acting

Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust

2006

Production Design

5.4

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generati...

Jarhead

Jarhead

2005

Production Design

6.7

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit a...

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

2005

as Self

Acting

The making of 'The Truman Show'.

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

2004

Production Design

6.1

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord...

Big Fish

Big Fish

2003

Production Design

7.8

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...

Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition

2002

Production Design

7.4

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, ...

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

Production Design

7.5

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000

Production Design

7.3

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

The Truman Show

The Truman Show

1998

Production Design

8.1

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...

Waterworld

Waterworld

1995

Production Design

6.2

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

Production Design

7.1

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Hero

Hero

1992

Production Design

6.3

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then t...

Bugsy

Bugsy

1991

Production Design

6.4

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitat...

Barton Fink

Barton Fink

1991

Production Design

7.5

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing

1990

Production Design

7.5

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

The Grifters

The Grifters

1990

Production Design

6.5

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

1989

Production Design

7.1

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's direct...

Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy

1988

Production Design

5.6

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into h...

Like Father Like Son

Like Father Like Son

1987

Production Design

5.7

Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for...

In the Mood

In the Mood

1987

Production Design

5.5

When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled....

Wisdom

Wisdom

1986

Production Design

5.8

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American...

Under the Cherry Moon

Under the Cherry Moon

1986

Title Designer

5.6

Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inhe...

The Hitcher

The Hitcher

1986

Production Design

7.0

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...

Rumble Fish

Rumble Fish

1983

Graphic Designer

7.0

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare w...

Hammett

Hammett

1982

Graphic Designer

6.2

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

One from the Heart

One from the Heart

1981

Graphic Designer

6.0

The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.